2. Berliner Leseabend der toten Sprachen (LetoS)

New Monograph on the Pleiades by Maria Teresa Renzi-Sepe: "The Perception of the Pleiades in Mesopotamian Culture", Harrassowitz Verlag

Tagesspiegel-Supplement, December 3, 2024: "Sternendeuter" by Mathieu Ossendrijver and Team

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Frederik Bakker (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), "The Truth of Epicurus' Multiple Explanations for Celestial Phenomena"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Mathieu Ossendrijver (ZODIAC project), "The Astronomers in Seleucid Uruk Revisited"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Marvin Schreiber (ZODIAC project), "The Babylonian Number Syllabaries in Context: New Evidence and Tentative Interpretation"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Annette Imhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), "The Conceptualization of Mathematics in Pharaonic Egypt"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Jeanette C. Fincke (Leiden), "The Moon in the 'Cattle Pen': The Halo of the Moon as Seen by Assyrian and Babylonian Astronomers"

Extra Research Colloquium ZODIAC: Jeanette C. Fincke (Leiden), "Viper in the Sun, the Lion in the Moon, and the lumāšu - Ancient Mesopotamian Pareidolia in Sun and Moon"

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer an der Universität Wien, Papyrologisch Epigraphische Werkstatt

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at the University Potsdam, Lecture Series "Finding our Ways in Space and Time: Perceptions of the Universe"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Friedhelm Hoffmann (LMU), "Zur Überlieferung ägyptischer medizinischer Rezepte im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. - Beobachtungen am römischen Papyrus D 6257"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (ZODIAC Project) "On the fourteenth day of the Moon, Hope and Peace were born: The earliest Greek lunarium"

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Workshop "Tombs and Astral Knowledge from Egypt to China (1000 BCE - 1000 CE)"

ZODIAC talk: Fabio Spadini at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Workshop "Tombs and Astral Knowledge from Egypt to China (1000 BCE - 1000 CE)"

Christian Casey and Dina Serova: Workshop "Ancient Egypt Revived: Creating Scientific Illustrations with AI”

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver on the Project ZODIAC – Ancient Astral Science in Transformation, The Secret History on Western Esotericism Podcast

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at the University Leipzig, Bibliotheca Albertina

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at the Conference "Greek Papyri in the British Library: A conference in memory of Federica Micucci"

Andreas Winkler at the Workshop "How to secure a debt in antiquity", Freie Universität Berlin

ZODIAC talk: Prof. Wahid Omran, Fayoum University, Egpyt, at the ZODIAC project

ZODIAC talk: Christian Casey at the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 6-11 August, Leiden

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at the 13th International Congress of Egpytologists, 6-11 August, Leiden

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at Tel Aviv University, Conference of Ancient Science

ZODIAC talk: Alessia Pilloni at the EABS Conference, Siracusa 2023

ZODIAC talk: Christian Casey at the University of Naples, International Conference "Ancient Egypt, New Technology", July 2023

Mathieu Ossendrijver at: Research Colloquium of the Institut für Altorientalitstik

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at the Norwegian Institute at Athens, Conference “Magical Handbooks: Late Rolls and their scribal characteristics”

ZODIAC talk: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Annual Meeting 2023

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Serafina Cuomo (Durham University), "A distributed cognition framework in the study of ancient Greek and Roman numeracy”

ZODIAC at the "Long Night of Science", Freie Universität Berlin, 2023, "Ein Horoskop für die Freie Universität Berlin nach antiken Verfahren"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Anna Monte (Università Udine), "Ophthalmology in Graeco-Roman Egypt: a papyrological journey through eye diseases and their ancient treatments”

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Adrian Pirtea (MPIWG), "Celestial Omen Texts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Eurasia. Towards a Connected History of the Astral Sciences"

GESUCHT Stud. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d)

Stud. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) 41 MoStd. befristet auf 2 Jahre Kennung: SHK_ZODIAC Bewerbungsfrist: 26. Juni 2023

Location: Eine Bewerbung per Email ist bis 23:59 Uhr per email möglich.

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at the Conference "Voces Magicae and the Power of Unintelligible", Project: Transmission of Magical Knowledge

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at the Planetarium am Insulaner: Die Entdeckung des Sternkatalog-Fragmentes von Hipparchos

TALK Vorhersage: Zukunftsbewältigung zwischen Mesopotamien und Japan, by Mathieu Ossendrijver and Raji Steineck

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Caltech - California Institute of Technology, Francis Bacon Conference, "Thematic Continuities and Astrology from Antiquity to the Renaissance: A Conference in Memory of Noel M. Swerdlow"

ARTE documentary film with the participation of Mathieu Ossendrijver, "Trésors de Mésopotamie: des archéologues face à Daech"

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at the University of Warsaw, Lecture Series "Divination, games, and curses in Asia and Africa"

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at the University of Michigan, Conference "Star Lore from Babylonia to Brahe", May 12-13

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Sebastian Richter, “Al-Rāzı̄ in Upper Egypt? A 9th-/10th-Century Coptic Archive of Medical and Alchemical Manuscripts and its Intellectual Background”

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at Macquarie University, Society for the Study of Early Christianity Annual Conference 2023

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Paul Unschuld (Charité Berlin), “The manifold messages of the most ancient Chinese medical texts: Who informed the anonymous authors?”

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at the University of Warsaw, Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group

TALK Mathieu Ossendrijver, Cuneiform Mathematics Reading Group, Université Paris Cité, SPHere

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at the University of Sydney, Research Seminar Series, Semester 1, 2023

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at the Warburg Institute, "Immortal Egypt. The Afterlife of Egypt in Early Modern Visual Art I", International Workshop, London 2-3 March 2023

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at the Lorentz Center Workshop, Structuring Magic: Towards a Digital Infrastructure of Texts and Artefacts, 20 - 24 February 2023

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Nils Heeßel, "Wie viel wog ein KISAL? Oder: Weshalb gab es neben dem Scheqel noch eine andere Gewichtseinheit in assyrisch-babylonischen medizinischen Rezepten?

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Kolloquium zum Alten Orient

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at University of Warsaw

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World: Jacob Dahl (University of Oxford), "Back to the Future: Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite"

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at the Workshop "Of stars and wedges. Ancient Near Eastern astral science as a case study for the interpretation of the universe in ancient cultures", Naples

Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institute for the History of Knowledege in the Ancient World: Stefanie Rudolf (MPIWG, Berlin), "A Great Star Falls" - Comets and Meteors in Syriac Literature and Language

ZODIAC talk: Alessia Pilloni at GRISeF 2022, IV Convegno dei Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Storia e Filologia del Vicino Oriente Antico (GRISeF-VOA) – Ricerche in corso

ZODIAC talk: Christian Casey at ASOR 2022, Boston

Research assistant (praedoc) (m/f/d) with 65% part-time job limited to 3,5 years Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU Kennung: PhD_2_ZODIAC

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann Rohrer, at Neubauer Collegium, Chicago: From PGM IV to GEMF 57: new approaches to the Great Paris Magical codex

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Ramaz School, New York City

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Symposium XXVIII Machtige verhalen, Nederlandse Vereniging van Wiskundeleraren (NVWS), Leiden

ZODIAC workshop "Imagining the Sky: The Zodiac and Related Astral Imagery in the Ancient World", Freie Universität Berlin

Location: Reception, Wednesday 21/9/2022, Planetarium am Insulaner, Steglitz. Conference days Thursday 22/9/2022 and Friday 23/9/2022, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstr. 23-25, room 1.2051, 14195 Berlin

Mathieu Ossendrijver, Podcast on Radio Eins, "Die Erfindung des Horoskops war eine Revolution"

Mathieu Ossendrijver, Podcast on RBB24, "Die Erfindung des Horoskops"

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at the 14th International Conference for Demotic Studies, Universität Heidelberg, 5.09-09.09.2022

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at the 15th International Congress of Nubian Studies, Warsaw

Michael Zellmann Rohrer at: XXXe Congrès international de Papyrologie, Paris

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at the 66. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Mainz

ZODIAC talk: Marvin Schreiber at the 66. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Mainz

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at XXXe Congrès international de Papyrologie, Paris

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler, Berlin Papyrological Colloquium (HU - FU - Ägyptisches Museum)

Mathieu Ossendrijver at the Arche Nebra, "Der Himmel über Babylon".

"Als die Babylonier das Horoskop erfanden", Tagesspiegelbeilage, 02. Juli 2022

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Universität Marburg, Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien

Seminar with Francesca Rochberg (University of California, Berkeley): "Worldmaking" and the anthropology of ancient science

Location: Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums, Arnimallee 10, Raum 010

Inauguration of the ZODIAC Project and the Institute for the History of Knowledge in Ancient Times

Seminar with Francesca Rochberg (University of California, Berkeley): The problem of "natural knowledge" for the history of Babylonian science

Location: Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums, Arnimallee 10, Raum 010

ZODIAC talk: Marvin Schreiber at the Institut für Altorientalistik, Forschungskolloquium 2022: "Late Babylonian Horoscopy"

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Leiden University, Workshop "Archival Scribes and Archival Literacy in Babylonia: Theory and Practice", 1-2 June 2022.

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Workshop: Scribes and Readers of Magical Texts in Late Antique and Medieval Egypt

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at Laboratoire HISOMA, Conference „Normes et Langages“

Mathieu Ossendrijver: Forschungskolloquium des Instituts für Altorientalistik, Freie Universität Berlin

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, Ängelsberg, Sweden

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Observatoire de Paris

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Maynooth University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Huxley Lecture

Michael Zellmann Rohrer at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, Workshop "Greek naming in Egypt"

PhD position (m/f/d) with 65% part-time job limited to 3.5 years Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU Kennung: PhD_ZODIAC_2022

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at the Paris Observatory, Workshop "Diagram Diversity in the Light of Digital Humanities"

ZODIAC talk: Andreas Winkler at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, "Providence, Fate, Teleology - On transtemporal order in the singularities of time and its transcultural agency"

ZODIAC talk: Andreas F. Winkler at Stockholm University, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Brown University (USA) History of Ancient Science Seminar

ZODIAC talk: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at Berliner Antike Kolleg: "New Greek astrological treatises on papyrus"

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at the SBL Annual Meeting, Houston

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at Université de Lyon, CNRS Laboratoire Hisoma, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée. Conference "De l’araméen en lettres grecques. Épigraphie et interférences linguistiques au Proche-Orient sous l’Empire romain"

Andreas F. Winkler und Michael W. Zellmann-Rohrer at: 56. Neue Forschungen zur ägyptischen Kultur und Geschichte & Erman-Tag 2021

Mathieu Ossendrijver at LMU Munich, Presentation at "Library of Ashurbanipal - Colophon Workshop"

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at University of Chicago Center, Paris. Conference on magical papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt

Research assistant for the ZODIAC project, 50%-part-time, limited to 2 years, 13 TV-L FU, deadline: 18.10.2021

ARTE documentary film: Trésors de Mésopotamie

ARTE documentary film: Mesopotamien - Archäologen retten, was zu retten ist

ZODIAC talk: at Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Working Group "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa"

Mathieu Ossendrijver and Caroline Waerzeggers at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies, Wuppertal. Workshop "Comparing Ancient Historiographies: The Yehudite Book of Chronicles, Herodotus and Babylonian Chronicles".

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at the 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST), July 25-31, Workshop "Art, image, and astronomical knowledge"

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at University of Zaragoza, International Conference “From Theory to Practice: The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in the Graeco-Roman World”

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Working Group "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa"

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer at WWU Münster, Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik. Workshop: "The multidimensional character of lots/ sortition: a transcultural and diachronic approach"

ZODIAC talk: Mathieu Ossendrijver at Dahlem Humanities Seminar, Berlin (zoom)